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Never heard of that film, but I'd be curious to hear where you did. The Beatles came astonishingly close to making a Lord of the Rings film with Stanley Kubrick directing (John wanted to play Gollum). The butterfly effects on Peter Jackson's career would be more than worth the probable...

In my opinion, it's kind of hard to improve George Lucas' career once Episode I comes out. Really, you should try starting early. Like late 1970s, early 1980s early. The thing with Lucas is that he got so locked into Star Wars that he hasn't really done anything else. Sure, he produced the Indy...

Define "fail", and "miserably" as those words relate to the most commercially successful music act of all time.

I can't speak to the nationwide state of things, but being a longtime resident of North Carolina, I don't think I even heard of him until he became senator. Of course, I was relatively young at the time, so that could be part of the reason. There's also the distinct possibility that I don't...

Zombies don't count! :p Interesting idea for a TL. I'll be watching.

Not true. He was inaugurated as senator on January 3, 2005 and declared his candidacy for president on February 20, 2007. I slide by by a mere 48 days. :p Regardless, I didn't say Edwards wouldn't be picked because he had less than two years in the senate. I said he wouldn't be picked because...

I didn't say they'd *still* be together, but had Epstein not died, they would have stuck together longer. John Lennon said pretty much the same thing. Really the problem isn't Epstein's death itself, but what happens afterward, primarily the issue of Allen Klein, and Paul not accepting him as...

I'm pretty sure you're wrong. I've never heard anything of the sort and can't imagine why that would be the case. Yousef's plan in 1993 was to knock one tower over and force it to fall into the other, but even if he had a bomb large enough to knock out the supports, that probably wouldn't have...

That would at least give them a little more musical competition, but it doesn't solve any of the problems caused by Epstein's death, such as the fact that the White Album is basically 2-3 solo albums on two LPs. If Epstein still dies, and the Rishikesh retreat (which logically follows from...

Nice track listings! Though I think for TL purposes it would be best to find a way to butterfly away December 8, if possible. A return to music in '77 certainly gives you enough time (three years and a few months) for that. Get him out of New York, maybe back to England, and the 1980s suddenly...

I don't see that happening. Even in 1960, LBJ wasn't cool by anyone's standards. He helped out in Texas, and maybe in Arkansas and other parts of the South, but very few Democratic voters were such hardcore Johnson supporters that they wouldn't have still voted for, say, Kennedy/Symington, or...

Truth. It's ASB, but he asked. :)

I'm not right wing by any means; I'm just sayin'. I guess I should clarify that I meant more in terms of actual practice than in principle. Ideologically they're pretty distinct, but the tactics once a regime is in power are generally hard to distinguish -- harsh censorship, anti-intellectualism...

Ron is spelled "Ron", not "Rand". :p

RFK, but... well, you know.

There's fewer differences between those two ideologies than most are comfortable admitting.

Eric Clapton. Maybe Ginger Baker, too. Even Bob Dylan is still a possibility (he did go electric some years prior). Stylistically everything would be... different (harder? dirtier?) than the Wilburys, though, as that's what was going around at the time. Hell, you can assemble a decent line-up...

Oddly enough, this is actually one of the alternate history questions I've mulled over the most. Allow me to summarize my mental processes below: First off, the best way to keep the Beatles together is to keep Brian Epstein alive. Lennon cited his death as the moment the band started to...

I think this belongs in this section, even though the most interesting butterflies would probably be post-1900. In short, how would international politics have turned out differently had Alaska never been purchased by the United States from Russia? I see no reason to think that something like...

First off, Earl Warren never gets to investigate the death of Marilyn Monroe. The whole debacle that was the congressional hearings IOTL never happens, so Kennedy probably goes down in history as an American hero, maybe he's even the best-loved president ITTL, akin to our McGovern.